Racked
Erwin and I racked the ’12 MV Syrah. This is the first racking post MLF.
I was a little worried from a slightly off nose that we had noticed. But the racking went fine; it smelled and tasted great. We did not taste along side another wine though.
We started out with a 60 gallon barrel plus a 5 gallon carboy. When we finished, we had the 60 gallon barrel, and slightly over a case of bottles for topping, for a total of about 63 gallons. We only lost two in the racking process.
- Added 25 ppm sulphites:
- 60 gallon barrel: 100 mL 10% solution
- 3 gallons of bottles: 5 mL 10% solution